Show NORTHWEST NOTES the total value of wyoming products during 1907 was 61 the mineral production of wyom ng for the past year added 18 to the wealth of the state something like 15 horses were shipped from wyoming during the past year returning approximately 1 to the growers prairie fires started a disastrous conflagration in boulder colo twelve buildings being burned before the fire was gotten under control the hog industry of wyoming Is growing and there were marketed during the year about 5 same re turning to the state about 50 rings watches lockets and trinkets to the value of 1 were stolen by a daring thief who broke the front window of the enterprise jewelry company s store in denver the total of capital surplus depos its and undivided profits of the banks of reno nevada amount to more than 11 an increase of more than per cent in the past year starting with one buck and a few ewes in the early eighties wyoming has rapidly increased her sheep hold ings until now there are being grazed in this state approximately sheep the population of ely nevada has doubled five times within the past eighteen months its assessment roll has more than doubled it has been by far the most prosperous year in its history surveying will start during janu ary tor the new guggenheim Gugg road from ely to tonopah and goldfield the road will carry ore to the big 10 ton smelter now nearly corn plated at mcgill nev there are at the present time ap proximately cattle in the state of wyoming valued at during 1907 the shipments of cattle from this state were valued at ap proximately 8 ten miles of electric railroad have been built in and around reno nevada during the past twelve months and surveys for miles more were completed work on these lines will begin early next spring hugh fulton was shot and instant ly killed by ed johnson at silver bow a nevada camp the cause of the killing was over some mining claims johnson was armed with a rifle and fulton with a six shooter seventeen persons were injured none of them fatally in a collision between two trolley cars in denver one of the cars should have taken a siding but tailed to do so and the two cars crashed together headon head on A passenger train was derailed near reno nevada the engine tender and ten cars leaving the track two bag gage cars overturned and the track was torn up for half a mile gers were badly shaken up but notie seriously injured the reports of the assessor just in shows a total property valuation in reno nevada of an in crease of more than 3 in the past five years it is estimated that the increase tor the coming year will be close to 2 the population of coming at the present time Is estimated at the bonded indebtedness of wyom ing Is and this is being t aid off at the rate of 20 per year the annual income of the state gov eminent is about former senator thomas M patter son was assaulted by fred G bonfils one of the editors of the denver post and mr patterson s nose was broken bv bonfils the assault was a climax to attacks made by each on the other in their newspapers for several years shaver president of the fres no alume and irrigation company one of the largest lumbering concerns of the coast died of diabetes at fres no cal on christmas day after an illness of three weeks deceased before coming to this country was manager of a large lumbering concern in michigan charles E mcconnell president of the smelter city bank of durango colo which closed its doors decem ber 17 has been placed under arrest the warrant upon which b was ar rested was sworn to by harry jack son a depositor of the bank who bad 3 on deposit when the alon closed its doors out of work and despondent be cause he could not buy a christmas tor his daughter charles wll ham said to be the old est telegraph operator west of the mississippi river committed suicide in denver christmas afternoon by shootings shoo tins himself in the head me reynolds Hey was 61 years old colonel woodburn acting om mander of the department of the clumbia U S A in a statement aade at seattle said that the whole pacific coast would be helpless hel plesa in case the navy should proe unable to I 1 re vent the landing of a force of 20 japanese or other foreign at any of the numerous unprotected bays the boist in the past year families have taken advantage of the governments offer and have settled on the once arid lands of churchill county ie vada in next year at least a thousand more families are expected already the result of their work is manifesting itself v in the past twelve months nevada has added more to the wor d u balth than ever before in that time mire mines have been discovered more farms 1 ave been started more i eople have come to the state and more ind astr es have been established than during any previous year governor toole of montana has pardoned par doped john caddick convicted of murder in deer lodge county in 1895 and sentenced to the penitent biary tor life caddick killed his part ner while under the influence of liquor at a dance he must sign the pledge for the rest of ahls life the grand trunk railroad which has its eastern terminus in portland me will put into effect on january 1 a pension system claimed to be the most comprehensive and one of the most genero is in the country embrace ing every employee of the railroad in the united states and canada |